I buy a fund to make money for myself. As for whether I can make money and how much I can earn, first, I will look at the timing of buying, second, I will look at the timing of selling, so I say I should buy it in the right place from the beginning. Many investors find that the net value of the fund will drop after dividends, and think it is better to buy it after dividends.

is it better to buy a fund before or after dividends?

when buying a fund, don't look at whether it pays dividends or is about to pay dividends, because those who pay dividends are not necessarily good funds, and those who don't pay dividends are not necessarily bad funds. Whether they pay dividends is not the criterion for judging good or bad funds, so there is no such thing as buying before paying dividends and buying after paying dividends.

The reason why fund dividends are not the standard for judging the quality of a fund is because fund dividends have no advantages or disadvantages for investors. Fund dividends refer to that a fund company distributes part of the fund's income to investors through cash or dividend reinvestment, and the total assets held by investors in the fund account remain unchanged after dividends.

It just means that the dividends that investors get from buying before dividends can be converted into fund shares; It is relatively cheaper to buy after dividends, because the net value of the fund will be lowered accordingly when dividends are paid, and investors can buy more fund shares with the same subscription amount. Both have their own advantages. As for when to buy, we should take the market situation and the trend of the fund as a reference to decide whether to buy.

when you buy a fund, you mainly refer to these indicators: the company to which the fund belongs, the time when the fund was established, the size of the fund, the historical performance of the fund, the room for the net value of the fund to rise, and so on, rather than whether it pays dividends.